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Cultural retention is the act of retaining the culture of a specific ethnic group of people, especially when there is reason to believe that the culture, through inaction, may be lost. Many African-American, European and Asian organizations have cultural retention programs in place.
Opponents of cultural appropriation view many instances as wrongful appropriation when the subject culture is a minority culture or is subordinated in social, political, economic, or military status to the dominant culture [42] or when there are other issues involved, such as a history of ethnic or racial conflict. [11]
In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical cases of borrowing, speakers of one language (the "recipient" language) adopt into their own speech a novel linguistic feature that they were exposed to due to its presence in a different language (the "source" or "donor ...
cultural borrowing; partial borrowing; pilot borrowing; customization; conceptual borrowing; However, within the review, customization is found to be most effective. Lewis argues that customization allows each country to take their own needs into account while allowing for cultural flows. This is important because cultural flows are often ...
Topics in popular culture (26 C, 38 P) + Cultural impact (7 C, 15 P) A. Adoption and orphans in culture (3 C, 13 P) ... List of literary accounts of the Pied Piper;
A new English course at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts takes a look at Taylor Swift's lyrics and compares them with poetry that's hundreds of years old.
While we look forward to the start of a fresh year, here are 15 new releases we have our eyes on across genres, including romantasy, literary fiction, memoir, nonfiction and sci-fi. Titles are ...
What I liked about Storyworth. There’s a lot to like about Storyworth, assuming you either choose to answer the questions yourself or choose to pepper a willing participant.